{"id":133320,"date":"2019-03-26T15:55:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T15:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=133320"},"modified":"2025-07-01T22:11:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T05:11:25","slug":"family-phone-time-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/family-phone-time-study\/","title":{"rendered":"No, your kid’s phone isn’t wrecking your family time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Parents often worry that handing their kids phones or tablets will wreck the family dynamic. But new research suggests that being on a mobile device doesn’t keep you away from your family after all.<\/p>\n

A study conducted by Oxford University and the University of Warwick found that having cellphones and other mobile devices didn’t impact the amount of time that families spent together. In fact, from 2000 to 2015 when there was a large increase in mobile devices and higher quality internet connections, time spent with family at home increased by 30 minutes per day. <\/strong>Good news, right? Well, there’s a catch…<\/p>\n

Although there was a\u00a0significant increase in family time, that 30 minutes was classified by researchers as “alone-together” time, meaning family members are together in the home and doing things alone<\/strong> instead of shared activities like having meals or watching their favorite shows together.<\/p>\n

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Even though families have voiced concern that mobile devices are behind a decrease in shared activities, the study found that this wasn’t the case as researchers reported that the increase of alone-together time did not have an impact on the amount of time that was spent doing those activities<\/strong>, like watching television as a family. This time remained unchanged and sat at around 90 minutes per day.<\/p>\n

The Journal of Marriage and Family<\/a> says that these are the rest of the findings from the study:<\/p>\n